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Taiwan's HTC earnings edge down in Q2

Technology / Business

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HTC Corp, Taiwan's leading smartphone maker, said Monday its net profit in the second quarter was down almost two percent from a year earlier.





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HP renames EDS as HP Enterprise Services

HP renames EDS, now HP Enterprise Services

Technology / Business

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

US computer giant Hewlett-Packard announced on Wednesday that business services titan EDS, which it acquired a year ago, has been renamed HP Enterprise Services.


Lenovo buying back mobile phone business

Technology / Business

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Personal computer maker Lenovo Group said Friday it is joining the race to develop products that link phones and PCs by buying back a mobile phone business that it sold last year.


Samsung Electronics has announced a 4.29 billion dollar plan to make their business  environmentally-friendly

Samsung's 4.2 bln dlrs 'green' initiative

Technology / Business

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

South Korea's Samsung Electronics Monday announced a 4.29 billion dollar plan to develop eco-friendly products and cut emissions from its manufacturing plants by 2013.


Sony optimistic on 3-D TVs, in-house display (AP)

Sony optimistic on 3-D TVs, in-house display

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- A third to a half of the Sony Corp. TV sets sold annually will be packed with 3-D features by the year ending March 2013, a senior executive said Thursday.


Nokia Siemens Networks to lay off up to 5,700

Technology / Business

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Nokia Siemens Networks said Tuesday it will lay off up to 5,700 workers globally as part of a move to cut annual costs by euro500 million ($740 million).


Toshiba to stop making mobile phones in Japan

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created May 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Japan's top chipmaker Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday it will end production of mobile phones in Japan due to plummeting demand amid an economic slump.


Global CEOs back greenhouse gas cuts, carbon caps (AP)

Global CEOs back greenhouse gas cuts, carbon caps

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(AP) -- A global summit of business leaders urged governments to order steep and mandatory cuts in greenhouse gases Tuesday, favoring a cap-and-trade system instead of a tax to set a market price for carbon ...


Study says businesses can create clean energy jobs

Technology / Energy

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(AP) -- The organizers of a global business summit on climate change say millions of new jobs would be created in the U.S. alone by relying almost entirely on renewable or low-carbon sources of electricity.


Gore, others urge CEOs to back climate change deal (AP)

Gore, others urge CEOs to back climate change deal

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 24, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (34) | comments 3

(AP) -- Climate-change heavyweights U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and Nobel prize winner Al Gore urged more than 500 business leaders on Sunday to lend their corporate muscle to reaching a global deal on reducing ...


Global broadband quality improves but UK is lagging

Global broadband quality improves but UK is lagging

Technology / Telecom

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A global survey reveals that 62 out of 66 countries analysed had improved their speed of broadband connections since last year, with South Korea coming top of the Broadband Quality Study 2009.



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